Tapping apparatus



A. A. ROSENGREN.

TAPPING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FAILED no.5, 1919.

1 ,347, 1 4 Patented July 27, 1920.

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TAPPING APPARATUS.

APPLYICATION FILED DEC.5. 1919.

Patented July 27, 1920.;

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TAPPING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5.v 1919.

1,347,914, Patented July 27,1920.

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the-support of the vessels is rotatablearound a vertical1axis,.or is carried by: a vertical, continuously or intermittently rotatingshaft. A'lthough such a filling apparatus is used in every case where bottles (or other vessels) are tobe filled with a liquid, it is, however, particularlysuitable'for use in connection with a machine which automatitheabottles according. asthey are On the accompanying drawings is shown by way of example a filling apparatus carried "out in'accordance with this invention;

theapparatus is shown combined both with a sealing (capsuling). machine and-with a device for the feeding of empty bottles'to the tapping apparatus. Figures 1 and 2 7 show the group consisting'of the three above mentioned main parts, viewed from two di-' rections' at right angles to'one' another (in F igl- 2, however, the feeding device for empty vessels has been omitted); Fig. 3 shows the samegroup in plan and partly in section,- while Fig. 4 shows a'detail. Fig. 5 shows"diagrammaticallyandin plan a modificationof a plant in accordance withv this invention. Fig. 6' is a vertical sectional detailed view of the valve. e

By means of the feeding device, 1 for the empty vessels, which deviceis anelevator .of any ordinaryf construction and which therefore-does'not need to be particularly described, empty bottles are raised from premises below up to the filling 1 apparatus.-

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 oPat entedJuly Application filed December a ms;

a specification, reference being 27,1920; Seria1-No. -3 12.860; 1 The feeding'of empty bottles may, however,- also take place by mcans of someotherde vices.

sential conformity with the applicants The sealing machine 2 is arranged ines- SwedishPatent No. 40,480, besides which itr is provided with a cordance with the applicants copending application bearing Dec. 5, 1919, for the feeding to it of bottles filled in the filling machine, whichbottles are to be sealed: Neither the sealing mech'ine nor its feeding device need be more particularly described. Y

f On theiframe-2 of the sealing machine 1- is mounted a horizontal arm 3-, the free end of whichserves as a bearing 4 fora vertical shaft- 5, 011 the :lower end of whichis fixed a wormwheel 6,.into which engages a wo1'm. 7, mounted on an oblique shaft 8,

which is journaled in two bearings 9 and'*10,

Serial: No.; 342,859, filed device performed in ac- I the oneofrwhich is fixed to the'arm 3'an'd the other mounted in the frame ofthe scale ing machine 1. The shaft 8 carriesa second worm wheel 11,1vhichengages with a worm 12,-mounted' on a shaft 13belonging to the sealing. machine.

On its .upperend the "vertical which: is vice from the sealing machine, carries a re-' shaft 7 is introduced into the receptacle througha tube 15 passing centrally down to its arched roof and which tube is joined air-tight ontodriven bythe above describe'dfdethe roof in such a manner that the receptacle can rotate, 1 while the tubecis stationary. From the lower part of the receptacle prof ject filling tubes 16, the downwardly bent.

parts of' which are provided with slidable valves- 17 which coveropenings in thefilli'ng tubes 16, when the bottles are pushed up around these tubes. or are moved away from them, whereby the valves regulatethe flow of the liquid; If

desirfedjchains 17 may 'be employed for limiting downward-movement 'of' the valve body '17.

- The bottles,- which are filled with liquid from 1 the receptacle l l are with their lower alternately expose and.

. 8O ceptacle 14 for the liquid (e. gqbeer with" which the bottles are to be filled. The liquid part placed in holders consisting of rings, sleeves 18701, the hke,arranged around and carried by a nave 19, which is fixed on the shaft 5 immediately aboveflthe bearing 4. The filling. of-the bottles takes place when the bottles move from the position A (Figs. 1 and 3), in whichithey are placed in the holders or sleeves 18, to the position B, where the bottles leave the holders, so that the shaft 5 rotates abouthalf" a turn, -The bottles placed in the holders are supported When a holder witha filled bottle standing on its bottom or flap has arrived at the position 'B, the locking device between. the,

' sleeve'and the-flap is .acted upon automatically, so that the flap and consequently the bottle standing on it falls'down. 1 Inthe device shown, the falling bottle is received by a chute 21, by which ity is led to one ofthe sleeves, movable in a'radial direction, in the bottle feeding device belonging to the sealing machine By this sleeve the filled bottle is then carried into the position in the sealing machine in which it is sealed or capsuled, whereupon the bottle thus filled and sealed is delivered to, and carried away by, achute22. V

' Onv the drawings the locking device between the sleeve 18 and its bottom or flap 20 is shown to consist of a hook-23, which is pivotally mounted on the/sleeve and en gages under the flap. :In this engaged position thehook is held by a spring 24s which is attached to the material carrying the sleeves 18 and situated between them and 7 ;roller the flap is returned to its original pothe nave 19. From the bearing & projects an arm 25, with which the one hook after the other comes into contact when the correspondingvbottle is tobe delivered, so that the hook is carriedasidela'nd the flapeis lowcred. During the continued rotation of the shaftw5 the lowered flap, impingesfupon a roller 26, rot'atably mounted on a spring 27,

4 The sealing machine from which as above 7 sta' te d the tapping apparatus is driven, receives power from a belt28, passmg around a pulleyi 29. Between the latter and the corresponding; idler 30 the belt 28 is moved by means of abelt forki31, which isi shifted by displacing aj-bar- 32, which'at its; end situated atthe place ofthe-operator is provided with a handle {The plant canvbe managed bya singleop erator who hashispla-ce between thefeed-f ing device of the empty vessels of the eleide fthe fi ling apparatus WhiCh;iS sit-;

vator. 1 and thesealing machinefl, and at the uated between the two first-named main parts of the plant. In spite of the fact that the plant for its operation needs only a single operator, its output capacityis nevertheless very great about 2,500 bottles fed forward, filled, sealed and carried away per hour. By doublingvv or manifolding the main'members (such as the holders of the filling apparatus) of the several main parts of a plant, its output capacity can be doubled H for manifolded. 'In Fig, 5 is thus shown a by bottoms 20, which-consist of flapspivot ed to the lower edges :of the sleeves 18' so .7 that they may swing downwardly, said flaps in ordinary cases beinglocked totlie sleeves.

plant, the members of the main parts of which'have'been trebled, whence the output capacity of the plant has been rendered three times as great as the outpntcap'acity of the plant 'asjsh'own in Figsl to 3. v

As will be seenthe'fillin'g apparatus and the sealing machine workin-timewith one another, so that a bottle which has been journaled therein, a liquid containing recep-- tacle mounted on theupper end ofothe shaft, valve controlled *filling tubes extending from'the receptacle, a bottle supporticon nected to the shaftibeneath the receptacle including al circleof bottle receivers, normally closed flaps swingably connected to the lower edge of each bottle receiver, stationary means for successively releasing the flaps during rotation ofthe bottle supports, means for receiving the bottles when re leased, and means engaged with the released flapsfor'returningithe'flaps to 'a closed position. l, a i

2. A filling apparatusof thebharacte'r described including asupport, a vertical w shaft journalcd'. thereima liquid receptacle carried by the top of:the shaft, valvecon trolled filling tubes projecting from the re-fl ceptacle, a nave carried by the shaft beneath the receptacle, 'acircle of bottle receiving sleeves formed, on the nave, flaps pivoted to, the lower edges of the.'isle,eves, spring con trolled catches-engageable with-theflaps for normally retainingtlielflaps in a closed p0 sition, a stationaryl'hook on the support and,

successively engaged by the catches. forinsuring of the release of the 'flaps,yagbottle receiver carried by the support onto which filled bottles are successively deposlted, and.

a Jrotatably and yieldingly amounted roller successively engaged by the released flaps:

flaps" to their closed positions.

for insuring of thesuccessive return ofthe '3. The combination ofa filling apparatus. 1

according to claim 2] anda machine f th automatic sealing of the bottles filled in the means for controlling the operation of the apparatus, means for operably connecting filling apparatus and the sealing machine. 10

the filling apparatus and sealing machine, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set the filling apparatus and the sealing mamy hand in presence of tWo Witnesses. chine Working in time with one another in ANDERS ANDERSSON ROSENGREN. such a manner that a bottle filled in the Witnesses: V V filling apparatus is immediately afterward H. D. OPEssoN,

sealed in the sealing machine, and common A. OHLss0N., 

